I think the two biggest things that i noticed in Citizen Kane was the Editing and the Low key and sometimes High Key Lighting. I really like how the director used this. The part whne Kanes opera singing wife complains to him about how she doesnt actually want to sing anymore and she is yelling and screaming and soon after Kane stands over her while she is sitting on the floor and a huge dark shadow takes over her face and at the point she is powerless and she is done trying to argue about the matter. she will sing if Kane tells her too. The Dark shadow def. shows Kane power over her and as a matter a fact it shows his power over anyone. When she becomes sick later in they put her in dark lightening to sort of recognize what sort of pain she is in. Later on we get a close up of her in higher lightening and you can see even more what sort of pain she is in. Towards the end of the movie Kane of course gets older and the director puts in darker lighting which i think that that represents how he is feeling on the inside. He is very lonely and really keeps to himself at times. During the movie i sort of the felt the same way just because how the movie was set up. But the very end of it when Kane says "Rosebud" right before he dies, only his mouth is showne and th rest of the his face is pitch dark, this makes the effect even greater. I think the film was a great movie just by how the director used lighting and editing in the movie.
~!sam!`
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Ya Sam that was also some of the things I noticed throughout the movie, like Susan's opera apperance. I found it pretty messed up.
I agree with Sam that there was a lot of lighting used to make the films tone more vivid. The high and low key lighting were present throughout the entire film and gave the characters and scenes more definition. I think the lighting is really what made the movie as great as it was.
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